India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says

On Sunday, Altman outlined ChatGPT’s rising adoption in India in an article revealed in the Indian English daily Occasions of India, as OpenAI prepares to formally take part in the five-day India AI Impression Summit in New Delhi, starting Monday. Altman is attending the occasion alongside senior executives from a number of the world’s main AI firms.

The expansion comes as OpenAI, like different main AI companies, appears to be like India’s younger inhabitants and its greater than a billion web customers to gasoline international growth. The ChatGPT maker opened a New Delhi workplace in August 2025 after months of groundwork within the nation and has adjusted its method for India’s price-sensitive market, together with rolling out a sub-$5 ChatGPT Go tier that was later made free for 12 months for Indian customers.

Within the article, Altman stated India is ChatGPT’s second-largest consumer base after America, highlighting the South Asian nation’s rising weight in OpenAI’s international technique. The disclosure comes as ChatGPT’s total utilization has surged worldwide, with the platform reaching 800 million weekly active customers as of October 2025 and reported to be approaching 900 million.

Altman additionally highlighted the position of scholars in driving adoption, saying India has the most important variety of pupil customers of ChatGPT globally.

Indian college students have turned into a key progress section for main AI firms extra broadly, as rivals race to embed their instruments in classrooms and studying workflows. Google has equally focused on the market, providing Indian college students a free one-year subscription to its AI Professional plan in September 2025. Individually, India accounts for the very best international utilization of Gemini for studying, Chris Phillips, Google’s VP and basic supervisor for training, stated last month.

“With its deal with entry, sensible AI literacy, and the infrastructure that helps widespread adoption, India is effectively positioned to broaden who advantages from the expertise and to assist in forming how democratic AI is adopted at scale,” Altman wrote.

ChatGPT’s speedy progress additionally highlights a broader problem for AI firms in India: translating widespread adoption into sustained financial effect. Indian authorities’ initiatives, such as the IndiaAI Mission—a nationwide program geared toward increasing computing capability, supporting startups, and accelerating AI adoption in public providers—seek to deal with these gaps. Nevertheless, the nation’s price-sensitive market and infrastructure constraints have made monetization and large-scale deployment more advanced than in developed economies.

“Given India’s measurement, it additionally risks forfeiting an important alternative to advance democratic AI in rising markets around the globe,” Altman wrote, warning that uneven entry and adoption might focus AI’s financial positive aspects in too few fingers.

Altman additionally signaled that OpenAI plans to deepen its engagement with the Indian authorities, writing that the corporation would quickly announce new partnerships geared toward increasing entry to AI throughout the nation. He didn’t present particulars but stated the main target could be on widening attainment and enabling extra folks to put AI instruments to sensible use.

The India AI Impression Summit is anticipated to attract a large cross-section of worldwide expertise and political leaders, together with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai of Google, and senior Indian enterprise figures akin to Mukesh Ambani and Nandan Nilekani. Political leaders, together with Emmanuel Macron, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, are additionally anticipated to attend, spotlighting India’s ambition to place itself as a central participant in international AI debates.

For international AI companies, together with OpenAI, the summit underscores how India’s huge consumer base is translating into rising influence over how the expertise evolves.

OpenAI didn’t reply to a request for remark.